The Alexander Invasion of India Alexander's invasion of India started after his conquests over the Achaemenid Empire of Persia (Modern day Iran) in the year 326 B.C. Alexander was the king of Macedonia he conquered Asia, Egypt, and Persia. After conquering Persia by collapsing the Archeamenid power his ambitions and goals did not stop there, he formulated plans and set into action for fulfilling his dream of conquering India and with it the world. After establishing firm control over Ghandhar (in modern-day Afghanistan) he marched east and crossed the Indus river into India. India at that time was ruled by Nanda Dynasty. Then again Nanda's Kingdom did not cover the entire India. It was a large and vast empire no doubt and if we compare it with other contemporary Kingdoms at that time but the regions of Punjab were not under the Control of Nanda, instead, it was under the control of different smaller kingdoms or autonomous republics. Some of these kingdoms were ruled by...